Commercial Awareness Contract Job Trends in Reading

Commercial Awareness
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Commercial Awareness skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 62 85
Rank change year-on-year -19 +23 -18
Contract jobs citing Commercial Awareness 5 3 10
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.50% 0.48% 0.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 0.52% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £560 - -
25th Percentile £638 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median daily rate £596 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Reading

Commercial Awareness falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 884 582 1,105
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 88.14% 94.02% 91.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 577 338 614
10th Percentile £327 £316 £213
25th Percentile £420 £419 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +7.32% -6.82%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £615
90th Percentile £689 £700 £687
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £504 £500
% change year-on-year -0.70% +0.70% -4.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 3 45
10th Percentile £65.00 £35.55 £20.17
25th Percentile £80.75 £45.38 £52.90
Median hourly rate £84.00 £61.76 £61.79
Median % change year-on-year +36.01% -0.05% -4.94%
75th Percentile £88.00 £69.48 £72.33
90th Percentile £105.50 £74.10 £87.50
Berkshire median hourly rate £83.00 £61.50 £61.00
% change year-on-year +34.97% +0.81% +7.23%

Commercial Awareness
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Commercial Awareness relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Commercial Awareness job vacancy trend in Reading

Commercial Awareness
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Commercial Awareness.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Commercial Awareness

Commercial Awareness
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Commercial Awareness in Reading over the 6 months to 2 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Commercial Awareness in Reading

Commercial Awareness
Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Commercial Awareness.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Commercial Awareness

Commercial Awareness
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
2 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Product Manager
2 3 (60.00%) Cybersecurity Manager
2 3 (60.00%) Security Manager
2 3 (60.00%) Security Product Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Consultant
3 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Consultant
3 1 (20.00%) E-Commerce Manager
3 1 (20.00%) E-Commerce Product Manager
3 1 (20.00%) E-Commerce Product Owner
3 1 (20.00%) Mobile Product Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Product Consultant
3 1 (20.00%) Product Owner
3 1 (20.00%) Security Consultant
3 1 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Product Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Product Roadmap
1 4 (80.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (60.00%) Digital Innovation
2 3 (60.00%) Product Strategy
2 3 (60.00%) Product Vision
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Competitor Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Customer Experience
3 1 (20.00%) E-Commerce
3 1 (20.00%) Market Research
3 1 (20.00%) Product Management
3 1 (20.00%) Product Requirements
3 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (20.00%) Scrum
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) User Stories
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Fortinet
1 3 (60.00%) Palo Alto